HISTORY OF THE MONASTERY AT TYNEMOUTH.

373 of an etoile on either side would seem to be also designed for the Virgin. The annexed cut, kindly furnished by the author, is from an impression very inferior to that ap- pended to the deed of surrender, still preserved in the Augmentation Office, of which likewise, and of the signatures, the volume contains a lithographed copy, admirably finish- ed, the seal being of the colour of the wax original. Besides the seal of Edward the Second, Mr.Gibson has engraved the second great -seal of Edward the Third. As we are not aware that it has ever been given before, ex- cept in Sandford, we gladly use the permission of the author to present it to our readers, whom we may re- fer for some interesting particulars connected with it, to Professor Willis's paper on the " History of the Great Seals of England,"' second volume of the Archaeological Journal. f?eal of the Priory of Tynemouth. in the The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seai, of England, from the earliest times till the reign op King George IV. By John Lord Campbell, A.^L, &cc. Second Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Murray, 1846. As Lord Campbell's work has already attained the dignity of a second edition, and may, possibly, reach a third, it will be rendering a useful ser- vice to the noble author and his readers, to call attention to some omis- sions, and many errors in that portion of it which falls within the scope of an archaeological review. It is unnecessary to follow his lordship into the question of the deriva- tion of the word "chancellor," since he has neither cast any new light upon a point which has been frequently discussed, nor supplied any fresh material for conjecture. The noble author has been equally unsuccessful in his observations upon the duties of the office in early times, a part of his work remarkably full of contradictory positions. A'e shall also pass by his notices of the chancellors during the Anglo-Saxon period, from the pluviose St. Swithin to the notary Swardus, who is most preposterously elevated to the dignity of vice-chancellor under Edward the Confessor. VOL. ni. 3 C